# Computer games you liked, or even loved, but never completed. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 31, 2005, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-games-you-liked-or-even-loved-but-never-completed/297098 "2005-03-31T19:26:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-games-you-liked-or-even-loved-but-never-completed/297098/1 "2005-03-31T19:26:20Z")
I’ve started playing an old favourite recently (On a work computer, the adsl off-network one) - Wargasm. (The US version might have had a different name, which makes sense in hindsight of the janet jackson-boob incident) I’ve never completed this game, or even conquered more than two continents. It was a damn difficult game, but it was also a lot of fun, and graphically ahead of it’s time. I’ve also never completed Black & White, Populous the beginning, GTA3, GTA Vice city, Doom3, Unreal 2, Unreal, (I could go on I think) Going back as far as a commodore cpc464 game called ‘fairlight’. I was probably about 10 when I was playing that, but it was just too hard and perplexing. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-games-you-liked-or-even-loved-but-never-completed/297098/2 "2005-03-31T19:28:46Z")
Final Fantasy III for SNES. My grades were falling, so my parents gave away the system. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-games-you-liked-or-even-loved-but-never-completed/297098/3 "2005-03-31T19:50:31Z")
Final Fantasies I, III (the real III, not VI), and V…all of them I get to the final dungeon (or final boss for FFV), but have never managed to FINISH them. And I’ve lost my FFIII savegame, and haven’t bothered starting again. I did, eventually, finish I…in Origins, on Easy Mode. Kingdom Hearts…I’ve been in Hollow Bastion for a year…that’s more ‘I’ve gotten distracted by other games, and haven’t gotten around to finishing’, though. Super Mario I and II(j)…2e and III I’ve beaten. Robotech: Battlecry. I’ve been stuck in chapter 2 for-freaking-ever. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-games-you-liked-or-even-loved-but-never-completed/297098/4 "2005-03-31T20:01:55Z")
Another vote for **Super Mario Bros. II** (Japanese version). Loved the first one, but _damn_ if the sequel wasn’t as tough as sin. ---
**Author:** ![NoPretentiousCodename](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/82dd89/32.png) [@NoPretentiousCodename](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoPretentiousCodename)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-games-you-liked-or-even-loved-but-never-completed/297098/5 "2005-03-31T20:06:53Z")
Fallout II Summoner Final Fantasy III (US SNES version) Zelda: Link to the Past ---
**Author:** ![HeadNinja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b4bc9f/32.png) [@HeadNinja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeadNinja)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-games-you-liked-or-even-loved-but-never-completed/297098/6 "2005-03-31T20:24:54Z")
Grim Fandango. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-games-you-liked-or-even-loved-but-never-completed/297098/7 "2005-03-31T20:35:41Z")
None of them. I don’t think I’ve ever actually finished a video game in my life. I scored 230,000 on Asteroids when I was 12, though. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-games-you-liked-or-even-loved-but-never-completed/297098/8 "2005-03-31T20:37:22Z")
Oy, too many to count. **Super Mario Brothers I The Legend of Zelda** (The original, and I onlu count this because I never finished the master quest. I have completed the first quest dozens of times,.) **Baldur’s gate GTA: Vice City** (I know there is no real “end” since it’s open ended, but there is an end to the plot missions, and I was two or three away from being done.) **Quest for Glory 2** (Damn if those weren’t hard. If you don’t know what you need to type, you can’t do it!) **Jackal** (COuld get to the last level) **Half Life** (I stopped a little while after using the engine to kill that oen big alien) **Doom** **Command and Conquer** (All of them) **Eye of the Beholder II and III** And about a dozen of those old SSI EGA TSR RPG’s ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-games-you-liked-or-even-loved-but-never-completed/297098/9 "2005-03-31T20:39:29Z")
I enjoyed playing Infocom’s “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” on my Commodore 64 back in the '80s, but I got stuck in the game and never finished it. Likewise, Zork III. I guess I was getting burned out on text-adventure games at the time. I still have my C64, so it’s possible (though unlikely) that I might revive these oldies again. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-games-you-liked-or-even-loved-but-never-completed/297098/10 "2005-03-31T20:46:08Z")
Here’s an obscure one: Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure for Atari Lynx. I never could get myself to Texas, I could get as far as Europe and back to Rome but there was always a “Bogus Time Paradox” blocking me. Also URU, the Myst flop. Loved Myst I, II,and III. I’m still working on IV. But URU is a pain in the butt. ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-games-you-liked-or-even-loved-but-never-completed/297098/11 "2005-03-31T21:23:22Z")
Neverwinter Nights, the starting campaign. Got all the way to the two cursed dragons at the end, had no protection from their fear aura, and my will save was pathetic. Endgame for me. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-games-you-liked-or-even-loved-but-never-completed/297098/12 "2005-03-31T21:43:15Z")
> [@vibrotronica](#): > > None of them. I don’t think I’ve ever actually finished a video game in my life. I scored 230,000 on Asteroids when I was 12, though. I didn’t know there was an ending to Astriods. So eventually you’ll have to let down the valient crew of the USS Triangle. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-games-you-liked-or-even-loved-but-never-completed/297098/13 "2005-03-31T21:44:23Z")
_Short Circuit_, an Apple game, drove me nuts in 1986. Then in 2002 I got an emulator, played it, beat it, and was underwhelmed by the victory screen (“HOORAY” over and over until you reset the computer). Sometimes the reward isn’t worth the years of soul-twisting. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-games-you-liked-or-even-loved-but-never-completed/297098/14 "2005-03-31T22:00:54Z")
I’m not much of a gamer. Of the tiny handful of computer games I’ve played more than 3-4 times, I’ve never gotten through: • The Uninvited. I know there’s a hidden tunnel somewhere in the maze but I’ve never figured out how to get into it; a locked room in the mansion I’ve never gotten into; never caught the naughty little goblin-creature with the key, either (which might pertain to the beforementioned locked room). • Leather Goddesses of Phobos. I haven’t played in a long time so my memory is fuzzy but I never got far enough into it to have any real sense of what I was supposed to be accomplishing. I remember getting out of the cell and eliminating one direction to turn in in favor of another, and somehow getting up above the city (?)… ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-games-you-liked-or-even-loved-but-never-completed/297098/15 "2005-03-31T22:03:03Z")
I used to play the sequel to “Secret of Mana”, SD3 a bit, but got to a point after going to the mana tree and gave up. I guess because then I knew I’d have to fight all the bosses over again. I keep telling myself that eventually I’m going to beat the game. I can’t contribute much to this thread, but if it were called “Games I’ve played 5 minutes of and planned to play, but still haven’t yet”, I could make a very long list. ---
**Author:** ![Sgt.Pepper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Sgt.Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sgt.Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-games-you-liked-or-even-loved-but-never-completed/297098/16 "2005-03-31T22:04:14Z")
Currently _Far Cry_ and _Half Life 2_. That because there are scary things that jump out at me and freak me out. But I do love them both, the graphics are amazing. I’m also working through my second go of _Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic_, this time dark side. That’s one of my favorite games. And lastly _Medal of Honor Passific Assault_. It’s not worthy of the last MOH titles, but not bad either. Right now I’m stuck on one tough level and I have no inclination to finish it. Fairly enjoyable game, though. ---
**Author:** ![Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chance_the_Gardener)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-games-you-liked-or-even-loved-but-never-completed/297098/17 "2005-03-31T22:06:28Z")
**Railroad Tycoon II** —There’s not reason for me never to have finished the last five scenarios; I just haven’t. I just finished the India scenario last month, and I haven’t moved on to the next one. I’m really interested in doing the Cape to Cairo scenario; I just need to make it that far. I’m still stuck on the “Which Way to the Coast” scenario; building railroads through the Australian Outback is tough! **Rampage** —I played this on arcade machines in the late 1980s. I kept pumping quarters into it because it was fun, and because I realized that the cities the monsters were destroying followed a logical path. You destroy New York, and then work your way up to New England, then in a ring down to the South, over to the West Coast, hooking up and then back east to Bismarck, North Dakota… where I ran out of quarters. I’m not sure if this one _can_ be finished, but I wouldn’t mind getting a couple rolls of quarters and some like-minded friends on a machine and destroying America! After about three years of intermittant play, I finally conquered **Carmageddon II** , which absolutely _rules_. I was starting to think I’d never do it. And I suppose I might as well brag: in 1989, pumping quarters into the machine, I actually finished **Galaga**. It really can be done! I can’t remember, but I think the last level is No. 128. Just make sure you’ve got a few hours to spare, and that you don’t mind standing up for a long time… (There’s no spectacular ending; it just stops, so don’t get your hopes up.) ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-games-you-liked-or-even-loved-but-never-completed/297098/18 "2005-03-31T22:10:32Z")
Ditto on GTA3 and Black & White for me. Played both and loved them, then got bored before I finished. I’ll add the original Hitman:47 too. Played it a lot and got to the final showdown (where you have to defeat 10 clones of yourself) and could never finish. Don’t know if my version needed a patch or what, but I maintain that it was impossible to beat that final chapter. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-games-you-liked-or-even-loved-but-never-completed/297098/19 "2005-03-31T22:11:00Z")
**Elder Scrolls:Daggerfall** and **Elder Scrolls: Morrowind**. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-games-you-liked-or-even-loved-but-never-completed/297098/20 "2005-03-31T22:11:16Z")
I never finished Day of the Tentacle or Grim Fandago. I am currently playing Knight of the Old Repbulic II and I think I’m stuck. I never finished GTA Vice City. Once I used a cheat code it just ruined the game for me actually as I became addicted to the cheats. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-games-you-liked-or-even-loved-but-never-completed/297098.md?page=2)